Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) and the Senator from New Hampshire (Mrs. Shaheen) are necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 79, nays 12, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 204 Ex.] YEAS--79 Alexander Baldwin Barrasso Bennet Blumenthal Blunt Boozman Brown Cantwell Capito Cardin Carper Casey Cassidy Collins Coons Cornyn Cortez Masto Cotton Crapo Donnelly Duckworth Durbin Enzi Ernst Feinstein Fischer Flake Gardner Graham Grassley Hassan Hatch Heinrich Heitkamp Heller Hirono Hoeven Hyde-Smith Isakson Johnson Jones Kaine Kennedy King Klobuchar Kyl Lankford Leahy Lee Manchin McCaskill McConnell Murkowski Murphy Murray Paul Portman Reed Risch Roberts Rounds Rubio Sasse Schumer Scott Shelby Smith Sullivan Tester Thune Tillis Toomey Udall Van Hollen Warner Whitehouse Wicker Young NAYS--12 Booker Gillibrand Harris Markey Menendez Merkley Peters Sanders Schatz Stabenow Warren Wyden NOT VOTING--9 Burr Corker Cruz Daines Inhofe Moran Nelson Perdue Shaheen The nomination was confirmed. ____________________”